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Joel Rosenberg has been a co-blogger here on Windypundit for a few months, so I think it's time to give him an "About" page. I asked him if he wanted to write it, but he told me to write it myself. So I did.Actually, the page is not so much about Joel as it is about my attempt to write something about Joel. I've managed to turn his "About" page into yet another post about … [Read more...] about About Joel Rosenberg

People used to talk about how Google was going to build a "web-based operating system." Personally, however, I'm more interested in what Amazon is doing. We all know them as a big retail e-commerce site, but running a site that big requires an incredible amount of web-based infrastructure. For the past few years, they have been commercializing their infrastructure to … [Read more...] about Now With Amazon CloudFront

I've had Windypundit moved to a new server. If you are reading this, then the windypundit.com DNS Address records have propaged to you and you are seeing the correct site. … [Read more...] about This Is the New Server

Comments are temporarily disabled while I do some site maintenance. Co-bloggers are urged to not contribute new material right now because it might get deleted. Update: Back up for now. Because of some problems I'd been having where the image handling library would crash part of the MovableType back end, I had asked my hosting service to migrate Windypundit to a … [Read more...] about Comments Disabled

I've been reviewing what Windypundit was all about this year, and it turns out 2007 was the year in which I made a fearless election prediction. John Dvorak and I found common ground. I introduced you to the swell guys on the Lima SWAT team. I piled on Ron Paul, and then again, and then one last time. I pondered the market failures in 22-inch wiper blades and Dulce de Leche … [Read more...] about 2008 In Review